When someone is diagnosed with a fatal disease, they must be told.
First, ovarian cancer is often a fatal disease, often rapidly so.
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Poizner tells us, for example that he accelerated his way through high school to appease his mother, who told him she was dying from a fatal disease.
Komen, education is at the forefront of what we do and has been a main reason we are witnessing the trend of breast cancer evolving from a fatal disease to one requiring chronic management or better yet, to being cured.
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That argument doesn't mean spit to the New York regulators, who are concerned about the reliability of the online tests and their potential to send people rushing to their doctor demanding a cure for a fatal disease they may never get.
Only a handful of people know this about me, but five years ago, my father died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. This is a fatal disease that literally eats away at a person's muscles until they cannot walk, talk or even breathe.
The architect, who studied in Wisconsin, had been shocked when, on a visit home to the town of Buea, he was confronted with a community ravaged by AIDS. Though aid workers were teaching the message of prevention, Menyoli found that most locals trusted foreigners more readily when they said that HIV was not a lie or a conspiracy but a fatal disease.
The vaccine is safe, effective and the only protection against a potentially fatal disease.
This medicine is an impressive collection of firsts: not only is it the first drug approved to treat lupus, a potentially fatal disease in which the immune system attacks healthy tissues, it is also one of the first drugs to come out of genomics, the systematic evaluation of human genetics that was epitomized by the human genome project a decade ago.
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Guinea worm is a non-fatal disease transmitted by water fleas living in stagnant water.
Arya had spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a progressive and fatal disease in which the nerves that control the muscles slowly waste away.
After the meeting, Hueston was headed for England, where he serves on the British committee of scientists that found there may be a link between that country's bovine disease and a rare but fatal human equivalent called Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, or CJD.
The European Union imposed a worldwide embargo on British beef exports in 1996 following evidence that infected meat caused a fatal brain-wasting disease in humans.
Hepatitis A is rarely fatal, although those with liver disease or a weakened immune system could require hospitalization, according to the health department.
In another path-breaking example, consider the case of Dr. Lucas Wartman, a young physician who developed adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a disease that is usually rapidly fatal, and for which there is no effective treatment.
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The visitors contracted hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, a rare but often fatal lung disease.
But they also carry a disease which is fatal to the native species.
Rules on displaying hot tubs in shops and public places should be reviewed, according to a report into a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.
Despite this, PHW said large numbers of people aged 10-18 years still have not had a jab which could prevent them from contracting measles, a highly contagious and potentially fatal disease.
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Pharming, a Dutch biotechnology firm, recently began clinical trials for alpha-glucosidase, a product designed to treat Pompe's disease, a metabolic disorder causing fatal degeneration of muscle.
The disease is a potentially fatal form of pneumonia caused by the legionella bacteria.
Lupus is a serious, potentially fatal, autoimmune disease that attacks healthy tissues.
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This is what Diane Pretty, a British woman with a fatal degenerative condition called motor neurone disease, wants to do, by committing suicide.
That drug, which also employs the immune system, astonished researchers with its ability in more than 20% of patients to provide long-term survival in a disease that typically is fatal within months.
But Jobs suffered from a rarer and less fatal form of the disease, called islet cell pancreatic cancer.
However, the government should not deny this treatment option to people who are desperately ill with a disease that is most often fatal.
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But then Charles contracted AIDS, at a time when that disease was almost uniformly fatal.
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Wall Street is bracing for one of the biggest new drug categories in a decade: the launch of a series of antiviral medicines that could dramatically improve the cure rate for hepatitis C, a viral disease that slowly attacks the liver and is often fatal.
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